* EU OFFICIAL ESTIMATES OVER 6,000 JIHADIS LEFT EUROPE TO FIGHT IN SYRIA "At the European level, we estimate that 5,000 [to] 6,000 individuals have left for Syria," European Union Justice Commissioner Vera Jouriva told Le Figaro in a Monday interview, as transcribed by AFP. She went on to say this was a very conservative estimate, because keeping tabs on foreign Muslim fighters in the Syrian theater is extremely difficult. .